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Book SynopsisIs there an essential Russian identity? What happens when “Russian” literature is written in English? What is the geographic “home” of Russian culture created and shared via the internet?
Global Russian Cultures considers these and related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians.
Trade ReviewOffers a much-needed remapping of 'Russian culture' as a global phenomenon and radically opens up the question of who produces and owns it, how it is sold and consumed, and how it is 'weaponized' today."" - Andy Byford, author of
Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial RussiaTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration of Russian
- Introduction: Putting Russian Cultures in Place
- Kevin M. F. Platt
- Part One: The Situation of Russian Cultures
- A Century of Russian Culture(s) “Abroad”: The Unfolding of Literary Geography
- Maria Rubins
- Russophone Writing in Ukraine: Historical Contexts and Post-Euromaidan Changes
- Vitaly Chernetsky
- “Russian Culture” in Central Asia as a Trans-Ethnic Phenomenon
- Natalya Kosmarskaya and Artyom Kosmarsky
- Distance and Proximity in the Baltic “Near Abroad”
- Kevin M. F. Platt
- History, Diaspora, and Geography: The Case of Russian-Israeli Cinema, 1991–2016
- Alex Moshkin
- Tell Me Your Story: Russian-American Writing and the Commoditization of Immigration
- Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya
- Russia as Whole and as Fragments
- Ilya Kukulin
- Part Two: Russian Cultures At Large
- When Soft Power Hardens: The Formation and Fracturing of Putin’s “Russian World”
- Michael S. Gorham
- Is There Any Such Thing as “Russophone Russophobia”? When Russian Speakers Speak Out against Russia(n) in the Ukrainian Internet
- Dirk Uffelmann
- The Most Global Russian of All: Michael Idov and His Cosmopolitan Oeuvre
- Adrian Wanner
- The “Globe-Trotting Russian” in Scotland: Discourses of Russian Cultural Tourism
- Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
- Rewriting Gender: Russian-American Women Writers and the Challenge to Russian Femininity
- Yelena Furman
- Song in a Strange Land: The Russian Musical Lyric Beyond the Nation
- Philip Bullock
- Global Transnational Russian Culture: Non-Russians Writing Russian Literature
- Miriam Finkelstein
- Works Cited
- Index
- Contributors
